located bodies – four the aesthetic body

aesthetics

	perception and sensibilities – aesthetics refers to embodied worlds
	and poetics – constructing worlds

tactic – look to the limits of a case

	what is the extreme case of the aesthetic body? – when the body itself is the object of a poetics

Orlan

	carnal art

aesthetics

	perception and sensibilities – aesthetics refers to embodied worlds
	and poetics – constructing worlds

the lists

	classification and categorization
	Sei Shonagon as arbiter of elegance
	ordering the world
	creating artificial worlds

another limit case – Leni Riefenstahl and the fascist body

movie - Triumph of the Will (1934)

the place – Nuremberg, fields, stadia

	and the people

the place – Hitler’s Germany

staging and choreography focusing on the male body, the body politic and the body and voice of Hitler

an aesthetics of politics

	the Pillow Book is precisely about the political – this is where it often resides
	stagecraft/statecraft
	symbolic figures
	dynamics of relationship, friendship, envy